Ruthless Delhi had a stumble last game

Riding high on wins, Delhi Capitals were given a rude reality check when Kolkata Knight Riders beat them by five wickets on a slow, sluggish Sharjah deck. At the very same venue, Delhi head into Mumbai Indians, who have had troubles of their own. Delhi have odds of 2.00 to beat Mumbai Indians.

Mumbai Indians have gone from quite a force to team with multiple weaknesses and teams have exploited them quite cleverly so far. They head into Delhi Capitals on a slow deck and that might actually play to their advantage. With Delhi struggling with the bat on the deck, Mumbai can choke them with their potent bowling. They have odds of 1.79 to beat Delhi Capitals. 

Mumbai Indians have slight edge in head to head

Overall, Mumbai Indians have won 16 and Delhi Capitals 13 of the 29 head-to-head matches in the IPL. While in 2020, Mumbai established their supremacy over Delhi by beating them four times, the comprehensive win earlier this season and Mumbai’s decline in general means Delhi are going to be tough competition.

RECOMMENDED BET: Mumbai Indians will have Sharjah to their advantage and will hope to adopt the KKR mantra to beat Delhi Capitals, the odds of which stand at 1.79

When these teams met earlier in the season, a four wicket haul from Amit Mishra and some sensible batting by the top and middle-order helped Delhi win by six wickets.

Keep an eye on… 

Delhi’s spinners: The focus has pretty much been on Delhi’s pace attack, but they have a handy spin duo in Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin with Amit Mishra also in the reserves. If they are to beat Mumbai, they will have to out-spin them.  

Mumbai’s middle-order: Fortunately for Mumbai, Hardik Pandya and Kieron Pollard found some runs in the last game. Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan are still out of form and Mumbai will want the former firing to really push for a play-offs berth.

TIP: Last game at Sharjah saw Delhi go through an entire innings with no sixes. They have odds of 1.87 to score less than 6 sixes.